The Changing Face: Extended Longevity
Some changes happen so gradually it takes human society decades or centuries to notice. Most intellectual revolutions, from the scientific to the industrial, only appear revolutionary in hindsight. At the time, people see only incremental progress, and they give little thought to the world-shaking significance of the few changes they observe directly. Those few who protest this cultural inertia, who speak in wonder or terror of the consequences they see coming,
